British economic and social history since c.1880 (Paper 11)

• History and Policy: policy papers and comment reporting recent historical research relevant to current public policy
•  Newspapers and periodicals online (see also the University Library's newspaper page):
  • British Periodicals*: digital archive of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • Factiva* (currently available on campus only): news from 14,000 sources, both UK and foreign
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive*: full digital archive of the Illustrated London News, comprising over 260,000 pages
  • LexisNexis Butterworths*: a wide selection of UK newspapers, including regional titles, with backfiles (coverage varies between publications)
  • The Times Digital Archive*: full digital archive of The Times
  • The Economist Historical Archive*: full digital archive of The Economist
  • BFI Screenonline: online encyclopaedia of British film and television, featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the collections of the BFI National Archive
• BFI Player: 11,000 archive films are available to watch free from the BFI, national and regional archives. This collection grows constantly as more material is digitised.
• Bibliography of British and Irish History*: bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth; contains over 500,000 records, and provides links to online texts where available
• British Cartoon Archive: website of the British Cartoon Archive, including biographies of cartoonists and thousands of digital images
• British Library Archival Sound Recordings*: online library of over 46,000 sound recordings
• British Pathé, 1896-1976: video film archive of newsreels, sports footage, social history documentaries, entertainment and music stories from 1896 to 1976
• Cabinet Papers, 1915-1980: fully searchable selection of Cabinet papers, 1915-1980, arranged by topic
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge Histories series; relevant titles include The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, The Cambridge Social History of Britain, and The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
• Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire: online catalogue of over 6000 films of life in British colonies; over 150 films are available for viewing online
• Discovery*: online access to the National Archives' collection of digitised public records
• First World War: Personal Experiences*: database of digital images of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, scrapbooks, and visual sources
• JISC MediaHub*: portal to a range of audio-visual collections including selected news clips from the ITN/Reuters archives, the Imperial War Museum film collection, and the Royal Mail collection of documentary, public information, and industrial films.
• John Johnson Collection: digital archive of thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera, published from the 18th-early 20th centuries; divided into collections: advertising; book trade; crime; entertainment; prints
• News on Screen (British Universities Film & Video Council)*: database of 180,000 newsreel and cinemagazine stories (1910-1983), linked to production documents and films
• Online Historical Population Reports Website (Histpop)*: online access to complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland, 1801-1937
• Open Research Exeter (ORE): University of Exeter's open access repository for images and multimedia; Exeter's special collections are particularly strong in Victorian popular culture
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*: biographies of over 57,000 individuals
• TUC History Online: website covering the history of the Trades Union Congress, including documents and reports relating to the General Strike
• UK National Statistics: website of UK national statistics
• U.K. Parliamentary Papers*: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688
• A Vision of Britain Through Time: website bringing together historical surveys of Britain, 1801-2001; includes maps, election reports, statistical trends and travel writing
• Who's Who/Who Was Who: biographical dictionary, published annually since 1849

(Resources marked * denote those subscribed to by the University Library; should any of the links not work, go to the eresources@cambridge page and try accessing the resource from there.)